Collections made by Mike Bingham

Tree 8 m high.

Gwembe Distr.; Chipepo E.

Trailing herb. Flower.

Massive vine covering two trees, in prolific bloom, and attracting bees in great numbers, clearly audible at 50m. Male flowers, slightly scented; pollen creamy-white.

Male flower buds (green)

Tips of fronds take root when they touch ground

Aquatic with floating stems.

Shrub, ca. 2 m tall. Stipules large. Flower orange.

Shrub on suffrutex plain.

Common

Flower

Tube pink.

Suckering shrub at riverine fringe, on limestone.

Weed in fish ponds.

Flower.

15m tall tree .

Medium-size tree.

Cultivated. Flower. (ex. Nat. Bot. Gard., Harare.

Flower

Cultivated. Flower. (ex Zambezi escarpment, Zambia).

Flower.

With Salix and Phragmites.

Flowers white.

Inflorescence green.

Weed in reservoir.

Fruit attract green pigeons.

Weed in cultivation.

River bank at foot of gorge. Caudex erect.

Tree; occasional in Kalahari woodland; to 8 m; leaves dull green; fruits light green.

determined as Bothriocline laxa

determined as Bothriocline laxa

Coppiced tree

Tree

Dominant tree.

Dominant woodland tree.

Sterile.

Tree in riverine forest.

Small tree at foot of steep hill. Wavy leaflet margins distinguished this from B.floribunda. Sterile.

Tree in woodland and riverine fringe. ‘Muzombo’ (Lungu)

Woodland codominant.

Seedlings.

Annual herb, erect, sticky glandular.

Silt over limestone.

NU: Tentative, "spikelets mostly disintegrated")

Garden weed

Shrub, ca. 1 m high, common in thicket.

Cultivated from seed obtained from the Zimbabwe National Botanic Gardens.

Flowers in bud

Small tree.

Small tree, 4 m high, elsewhere to 6 m. Deciduous.

Small tree.

Much-branched evergreen tree.

Weed.

Ruderal.

Suffrutex.

Straggling herb in grass.

Flower

Flower

Small tree, 6 m high, with straight bole; bark bluish, peeling off in papery strips.

Fruit. Bole slightly fluted.

Tree on termite mound.

Fruit.

Small tree, 4 m high, tending to be scandent. Fruit.

Tree, medium-sized. Few seen.

Temporary pool

Temporary pool

Rooted in mud.

This record was originally mistakenly believed to be Crinum graminicola but that species is restricted to South Africa and does not occur in Zambia.

Tree in woodland. Flowers pink.

Spreading and upright; stems dull green; calyx very light green; standard a dull yellow-light orange, inside brighter yellow; wings bright yellow; keel light green; young pods light green.

Frequent, among grasses; calyx green; bracteole deep red-purple; standard pale orange with darker red-purple stripes; wings similar; keel pale orange at beak, light green proximally.

Widespread; in cleared area under power lines; shrub; to 1.5 m; nodes tinged in purple; calyx green with red tinge; standard red to orange outside, yellow inside, wings mostly yellow with red; twisted keel green.

Occasional; annual; calyx light green; standard yellow with red-purple streaks outside, brighter yellow inside with streaks; wings bright yellow; keel light green becoming tinged with purple on tops.

A pioneer on sand banks. Erect annual; standard white, keel green and yellow.
K, det Mar 06: ‘with unusually narrow leaves’

Abundant at roadsides.

Ruderal.

Erect habit.

Locally abundant; shrub to 2 m; standard yellow with dark purple nerves, lighter inside; wings yellow with light purple nerves; keel green at base, purple-black at upper margin and at beak; pods inflated green, some with red-purple colour.

Occasional; shrub; to 1.5 m; stems early woody; herbaceous; stems light purple; heteroblastic; buds yellow to green; base of calyx purple to green on lobes; standard deep purple-red; streaked to edge where it is yellow; keel green; wings yellow.

Shrub to 1.5 m tall and spreading to 2 m wide; hairs silvery on stems; calyx green tinged and speckled in deep red; standard bright yellow inside with red splotch at base on back; wings orange-yellow; keel green with red specks and deeper red at beak.

Shrub, 1.5m tall.

Prostrate habit.

Rare; in pasture, stems purple, woody at base; calyx green, pedicel purple; standard yellow, deeper yellow at throat; wings yellow; keel purple.

Occasional; annual or perennial with taproot; calyx light green; standard yellow with darker red nerves in and out; wings and keel yellow to light green, DNA.

Glaucous.

Erect annual.

Abundant in depressions.

Annual weed.

Weed of cultivation.

Very large plant, glaucous, culms 3-angled & grooved on sides.

In bays, forming colonies at water's edge.

Weed in maize garden.

Semi-aquatic.

Over flowering97

2m. tall

large sedge in stream bed